For the word of God is (it always is; for all time) quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Hebrews 4:12
Wait. Isn’t Jesus that guy who wore those Bible day clothes and lived thousands of years ago? How could He, and the Bible, possibly be relevant for today?
Good question.
One answer about the Bible and Jesus’ relevancy for today is found in Galatians 5:19-21:
When you (anyone who has ever lived) follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
Be sober (stay alert), be vigilant (watch out); because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
1 Peter 5:8
Yes, Jesus will always be relevant as long as sin (living apart from God’s ways) is attempting to destroy our lives. As long as people have unforgiveness, jealousy, pride, fear, worry, sexual immorality, etc., battling for their attention and souls, we’ll need Jesus. He is the only One Who can save us from ourselves (the flesh), this world and the devil. That’s why Jesus came…To save us from our sins; to deliver us from being conformed to this world; and to destroy the works of the devil.
1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 3 All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
4 Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. 5 But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. 6 No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.
7 Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. 8 The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. 9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God. 10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.
1 John 3:1-10 NLT
If the Son (Jesus) therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
John 8:36
“Father, In Jesus’ Name, please set me free from any sin (any harmful way) You see in me so I can be free indeed to live my life with and for You, Lord. I know that’s the only way I’ll truly be happy in this life and have Your peace and joy that Jesus died to give me regardless of the circumstances in life.”
God bless,
Mark